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A temple for a giant Muneeswarar sits on the banks of the Adyar

Discover a 51-ft tall Muneeswarar in a seated position, along with shrines of other gods, at Burma Nagar's Arulmigu Angala Eswari Amman temple.

The Hindu

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says he's increasingly worried about her health

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi says he has always avoided talking to the media, but this time is different

The Independent UK

UN Security Council condemns Myanmar military over ‘unrelenting violence’

Joint statement from 13 members of 15-seat council says generals must stop killing civilians and end the crisis.

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George Orwell's 'Scotophobia' – and how he overcame it – explored in new book

GEORGE Orwell’s “Scotophobia”, and how he overcame it while writing his masterpiece 1984 on the Hebridean island of Jura, is explored in an…

The National (Scotland)

Between India and Ceylon

A scheme which the Indian authorities were considering, to connect Burma with India and all the principal towns in India with one another by telephone, raised the question as to whether telephonic connection between India and Ceylon cannot be established.

The Hindu

Burma Burma opens second location in Bengaluru

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Restoring communication

A hundred years ago, Burma was practically isolated from India with regard to telegraphic communication as a result of a severe storm in the bay

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Many youngsters in Bangla and Burmese camps remain disappointed as they cannot vote

It has been three years since Hindu migrants from Bangladesh and Burma celebrated the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), many hoping to get citizenship rights in India. The community remains disappointed now, as the stage is set for Karnataka to vote in the Assembly elections on May 10, but a…

The Hindu

King Charles' Coronation rejection as one of Queen's bridesmaids is NOT invited

Lady Pamela – whose father, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma was Prince Philip's uncle – attended the Queen's wedding in 1947 when she was eight and her funeral in a wheelchair last September

Daily Mirror

Myanmar’s military jet fuel supplies hit by latest US sanctions

US Treasury Department sanctioned two people and six entities linked to military regime’s atrocities, air campaigns.

Al Jazeera

Rose and the Burma Sky by Rosanna Amaka review – heartache and historical injustice

A sobering tale of wasted lives and Britain’s shocking treatment of its African soldiers during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Why does Turkey want other countries to start spelling its name 'Türkiye'?

Is Turkey’s recent spelling change about being more authentically Turkish? Or is there more to the story?

The Conversation

Battle is on to keep Victoria Cross awarded to RAF World War Two hero in UK

The medal was awarded posthumously to Squadron Leader Arthur Scarf, who was killed after leading a daring raid on enemy Japanese forces in Burma in 1941

Daily Mirror

From Thai-Burma railway to Sandakan, WWII history buff unearths stories of Australian POWs

A South Australian businessman digs into why prisoners from his region died at a far higher rate at the hands of their Japanese captors and discovers little-known tales in the process.

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UN Security Council resolution demands end to Myanmar violence

The only other Security Council resolution on Myanmar was in 1948, which recommended then-Burma’s entry to world body.

Chronicle Live

Young Newcastle doctor shares terrifying experience as bombs are dropped in Burma where he is volunteering

Declan Stokle had to take shelter in the jungle as jets dropped bombs close to the clinic where he was volunteering

Daily Mirror

King Charles will honour armed forces in first Remembrance Sunday speech as monarch

WWII hero James Fenton was devastated by the death of the Queen, just months after she sent him a celebratory birthday card when he turned 100 in April

Liverpool Echo

The real Penny Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, as she appears in The Crown

The Crown suggests she and the late Duke of Edinburgh had a romantic affair together

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Did Prince Philip have an affair? The Crown's Penny Knatchbull storyline explained

The new season of The Crown, which has just dropped on Netflix, examines the close bond between the late Queen's husband Prince Philip and Penny Knatchbull, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma

ABC News

Meet the women using beauty and fashion to reveal the ugly truth about military rule in Myanmar

Her rallying cries have been met with silence, so Sophia Sarkis entered a beauty pageant to spread a message about her home country Myanmar.

Al Jazeera

US sanctions Myanmar businessmen over alleged Russian arms deals

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says sanctions take aim at Russia and Belarus’ support for Myanmar military.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

'Hell' of WWII Burma campaign described by Japanese survivors

At age 101, Eisaku Yamamoto continues to share his story about the devastation of war from Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, where he lives. He was on the battlefields during World War II fighting for Japan in its campaign in Burma, the Southeast Asian country now officially called Myanmar. He was among…

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu’s colourful Chettiar mansions bear testimony to a world that was more open to the other

Just the entrance to a Chettinad mansion can be an exercise in map-spotting with its doors of solid Burma teak, Belgian mirrors, English floral tiles and Italian black marble columns

Evening Standard

WWII veteran may miss liberation event over passport delays

Mr Smoothy, who also served in Italy and Burma, said he was hoping the passport could be processed in time

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Russia is causing bloodshed in Myanmar, too

My heart breaks as I watch Russian planes bombing civilian homes, displacing millions of refugees and committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Four thousand miles away from Ukraine, in my home country of Myanmar (also known as Burma), Russia has been complicit for decades in the violence of the Burmese…

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